As you see Poncha has some famous dogs in the lines , but there's also Malinois blood , in the 15th
generation we find famous Tjop and Cora .Poncha has always been a very good working dog. Even now ,
at nearly 10 years , she would give her live for her ball.

1995 : working Class : World Dog Show : 1 excellent + CAC = Belgian Winner
Poncha is not only beautiful ( look at show results and pictures )she has always
been a dog with a splendid character , she is extremely sociable ,
is wonderful with kids and cats , she's a very good guarddog , she is
very talented for work , this in different fields .
From a very young age on Luc started training her for the tracking , she
did great and learned very quickly. He started training her in a club to learn the
obedience and the manwork of the IPO program ( Internationale
Prüfungs Ordnung )( almost like SHUTZ ), also called RCI ( Règlement de Concours
International ) or IWR ( Internationaal Wedstrijd Reglement ) Poncha and Luc trained
6 days out of 7 .

December 20 , 1992 : Poncha participated for the IPO 1 exam , she succeeded
with very nice results :
A. tracking : 95 / 100
B. obedience : 91 / 100
C. manwork : 87 / 100
This meant at that time ( and still does ) that PONCHA is the only Groenendael
female in Belgium that succeeded in the IPO 1 exam. Different articles appeared
in national and local newspapers , in WOEF and WOUF ( national dog magazine Belgium ),
in the magazines of the club for Belgian Shepherds in Belgium and France.( copy of
these articles ( in Dutch or French ) available on request )

1993 was again a succesful year for Poncha . In October she won the last CAC she
needed to become Champion of Belgium , a title that can only be gained when
the dog ( Belgian Shepherd ! ) has won the necessary CAC or CACIB and when
he or she passed the IPO , RING or CQN exam .
The same month we took Poncha to Holland and there she succeeded in the
UV exam ( UithoudingsVermogen test , we don't have this in Belgium )This is
an endurance exam , the dog has to run next to the bike , on all kinds
of surfaces , for 20 kilometers ( about 13 miles ), the judge constantly checks the
dog to see if it isn't crippled ( look for defaults in the elbows ), during the
short break ( after 8 km and after 15 km ) the footsoles are checked , they may not
bleed or be worn out. At the end the dog still has to pass some obedience tests.

August 1994 : we take Poncha to the French specialty , She is placed 1 excellent
in working class , she does the charactertest de championnat with
mention excellent plus ( only 4 or 5 out of all the females who took
the test got this result ! )

Poncha's last show was in June 1995 , at the World Dog Show in Brussels ,
where she won the CAC ( in working class ) and thus became Belgian Winner 1995 .

From time to time we still take Poncha to the club to let her do the manwork , because
she loves to do this.

October 1996 : Poncha was tested on her herding instinct by Steven Szabo. He
came all the way from California , USA , to choose 2 puppies from her litter with
Gylson. As the puppies would be used for herding , he would like to test Poncha , so
he did , we took her to a friend who has 6 sheep , Steven took her with him into the
meadow and she immediately understood the signs he used , she loved doing this , and
after a few minutes all the sheep were in the stable. If this was tested in the USA ,
Poncha succeeded succefully !